tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59109673468637551322018-03-03T02:33:34.152+11:00GlitterlifeWelcome! You'll find that I love to make little projects for the special people in my life. Also traveling is a big part of my life which you can find pictures from all the places I have visited. If you like to learn new things there are some great links so you can start learning a new craft today. If you are here for new craft ideas check some other great blogs on my favorite list. I hope you enjoy and come back soon.Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-13097679094663200792012-07-09T01:06:00.003+10:002012-07-09T01:06:45.326+10:00Blog Moved!Hi everyone please be aware that this blog is not active anymore. It has moved to my new site <a href="http://www.littlewoodenshoe.com/">Little Wooden Shoe</a>&nbsp;I will not be posting any more posts here so please come check my new site and get an email subscription!Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-75057283445835700752011-03-11T04:09:00.000+11:002011-03-11T04:09:31.621+11:00Luke's B-day at the Beach!Oh my this blog is sooo neglected! Its been pretty hard to get the time to write anything at the moment. I have started my own business!!! Yes, you heard me right. It took a lot of courage and work and its all set but it takes most of the little free time I have so hence the neglect of my personal blog! I have opened an online shop for handmade toys and gifts for children. The shop and blog are called Little Wooden Shoe. You can check the blog&nbsp;<a href="http://www.littlewoodenshoe.blogspot.com/">here.</a>&nbsp;You can check the shop <a href="http://www.littlewoodenshoe.com/">here</a>.&nbsp;I hope you pass by and check it for yourself.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Any way, my little boy turned two last month!!! Can you believe how fast it all went, it feels like it was last month I had this little newborn in my arms. So we decided to do a nice breakfast birthday on the beach. Because&nbsp;of the extreme hot weather we have been having over here we had to make it early in the morning, that is why the breakfast birthday. Everyone loved the idea of having it early seeing most of the parents are all awake at dawn by there little angels. So we made a cooked breakfast in the barbecue and we had cake, popcorn and other snacks for the kids. It was really an amazing day and Luke just loved it. I made his cake as his&nbsp;favourite&nbsp;cartoon character Ponyo .&nbsp;Naturally&nbsp;I did a crap job, I am no birthday cake baker but he seemed to recognise it&nbsp;immediately&nbsp;and the kids at the party seemed to love it, so mission accomplished! See trailer of the film bellow.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowFullScreen='true' webkitallowfullscreen='true' mozallowfullscreen='true' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/soHf8jnmQNs?feature=player_embedded' FRAMEBORDER='0' /></div><br />Very cute film!!! So bellow are some cool pictures of the party I hope you all enjoy and I am sooo sorry for the long silence.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-4I3zmkYcPOU/TXkCNmegxlI/AAAAAAAAP8g/_q31ItAhD4M/s1600/CIMG0858.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-4I3zmkYcPOU/TXkCNmegxlI/AAAAAAAAP8g/_q31ItAhD4M/s400/CIMG0858.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-46t5F714geo/TXkCXvqMBTI/AAAAAAAAP8o/pXR8baQ-gi8/s1600/CIMG0872.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-46t5F714geo/TXkCXvqMBTI/AAAAAAAAP8o/pXR8baQ-gi8/s400/CIMG0872.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Full of&nbsp;challenges&nbsp;at every corner and delightful new&nbsp;experiences. My blogging has become less frequent but time for blogging has been hard to find with Luke becoming a&nbsp;toddler and needing more entertainment&nbsp;from me.&nbsp;I have&nbsp;opened&nbsp;an online shop in the end of November too, after so many comments from blog readers, friends and family always telling me that I should have a go in selling my craft. So I took the plunge and this is why we had no posts for two months. So you can find a link to the shop on the side bar of this blog or you can try going to <a href="http://www.littlewoodenshoe.blogspot.com/">Little Wooden Shoe</a> blog. I already had 8 orders since opening the shop and with all the Christmas holidays it was a pretty full on month for me. But not to worry I will still keep this blog and will update as&nbsp;regularly as possible. Well, here are some photos of Luke&nbsp;during Christmas. The first set of photos is at our local shops, were they have organised something for the kids. The next set &nbsp;of photos is at our family Christmas. &nbsp;I hope all of you have a wonderful 2011!!!!<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TSF56uloyFI/AAAAAAAAP3A/k_-V9ggNJG0/s1600/CIMG0512.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TSF56uloyFI/AAAAAAAAP3A/k_-V9ggNJG0/s320/CIMG0512.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TSF5_rrbjpI/AAAAAAAAP3E/DJDludAqfXw/s1600/CIMG0514.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TSF5_rrbjpI/AAAAAAAAP3E/DJDludAqfXw/s320/CIMG0514.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TSF6ES-jAgI/AAAAAAAAP3I/LM_jXOLP96k/s1600/CIMG0516.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TSF7hlFTV-I/AAAAAAAAP4A/bKpEAD_MMcw/s320/CIMG0689.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TSF7nsVHONI/AAAAAAAAP4E/qz-ctPP1xxQ/s1600/CIMG0690.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TSF7nsVHONI/AAAAAAAAP4E/qz-ctPP1xxQ/s320/CIMG0690.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-63527806213490273942010-10-29T01:25:00.005+11:002010-10-29T01:35:43.389+11:00How to make a play kitchen for your kids!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmDs5Rg6aI/AAAAAAAAPxg/L9V9IQazPbo/s1600/IMG_6408.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmDs5Rg6aI/AAAAAAAAPxg/L9V9IQazPbo/s320/IMG_6408.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Every time we go visit friends or our playgroup and there is a little play kitchen, Luke spends most of the time role playing. So I have been for the past month looking into buying a little play kitchen for him, one who won't break the bank. They can range from $130 to $400! I really loved the wooden kitchens but of course they were the most expensive of the range. Ikea has a really cute wooden kitchen on display at the moment but still our budget just doesn't allow us to buy it. After a lot of looking around I have decided to make one for Luke from an old empty packing box we had left from our move. After just one hour putting the kitchen together I was&nbsp;surprised&nbsp;by how great it looks. It was also a great activity to make together even if he is just 20months old, he was very excited by the process. So here is how you make a play kitchen for your kids for less than $10.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Supplies:</span></u></b><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 large empty packing box</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4 roles of contact paper (any colour u like)</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 stainless steel bowl</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 felt sheets (black and red)</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 empty paper towel role tube</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 kitchen tap- optional </span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">play food</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">play pots and pans</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Stanley knife</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ruler</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">pen</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br /><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Instructions:</span></u></b><br /><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Find a packing box that will be a good hight for your child.&nbsp;A tall box could be used for a refrigerator or laid on its side for a sink and counter. I decided to use mine on its side because I wanted to use it as a sink and stove top. Tape the box shut in all its sides.&nbsp;</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cover all the box with contact paper of your choice.&nbsp;</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For the oven, on the front side of the box, cut across the top and ½ way down on both sides, to form the oven door. Place tin foil on this pull down door to represent the window to look through.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mark area beside the oven door to make a cupboard and cut so you have two doors so your child can put all their pans/pots and play food away when done playing.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cut three sections of the paper towel tube to make three handles. I made one wider for the oven handle. Glue these on the top oven door and cupboard doors with craft glue.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Glue the black felt on the top counter area above the oven and make two red circles with your red felt. Glue the two red circles on top of the black felt to make the stove top. You can also glue some milk bottle covers on the side to make the stove top controls.&nbsp;</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For the sink get your stainless steel bowl and cut a smaller circle to insert the sink.&nbsp;</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I had an old kitchen tap which I used as a sink tap, this of course is optional.</span></li></ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmE2WG8xpI/AAAAAAAAPxk/AcWNN1r9Yhg/s1600/IMG_6407.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmE2WG8xpI/AAAAAAAAPxk/AcWNN1r9Yhg/s320/IMG_6407.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmFAEqis5I/AAAAAAAAPxo/lF_F46bNQtc/s1600/IMG_6409.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmFAEqis5I/AAAAAAAAPxo/lF_F46bNQtc/s320/IMG_6409.JPG" width="179" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmFKHSYa_I/AAAAAAAAPxs/37Jeb-h1D58/s1600/IMG_6410.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmFKHSYa_I/AAAAAAAAPxs/37Jeb-h1D58/s320/IMG_6410.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmFTkViKDI/AAAAAAAAPxw/djI7NyTDors/s1600/IMG_6411.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmFTkViKDI/AAAAAAAAPxw/djI7NyTDors/s320/IMG_6411.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmFd-DfiaI/AAAAAAAAPx0/wnEO8zFQ0uA/s1600/IMG_6412.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmFd-DfiaI/AAAAAAAAPx0/wnEO8zFQ0uA/s320/IMG_6412.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmFoQ15OUI/AAAAAAAAPx8/T1qb0w8u6nQ/s1600/IMG_6414.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmFoQ15OUI/AAAAAAAAPx8/T1qb0w8u6nQ/s320/IMG_6414.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmFyhVSSfI/AAAAAAAAPyE/XpaJXq8v8N4/s1600/IMG_6415.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TMmFyhVSSfI/AAAAAAAAPyE/XpaJXq8v8N4/s320/IMG_6415.JPG" width="179" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-39454749559835339652010-10-13T16:46:00.001+11:002010-10-13T16:49:27.660+11:00Home Made Pumpkin Bread & Strawberry Jam!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TLVGQVmsODI/AAAAAAAAPwY/z3g_vg0Y56g/s1600/IMG_6371.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TLVGQVmsODI/AAAAAAAAPwY/z3g_vg0Y56g/s320/IMG_6371.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Here in Oz we are on a tight budget at the moment. This gave me a chance to look around the web and find ways to reduce my monthly food bill. &nbsp;I already started a small veggie patch here in our garden and I am happy to say that my&nbsp;zucchini seeds are&nbsp;already little plants soaking the sun. The orange tree is blooming very&nbsp;happily&nbsp;and I already can see the fruits forming so we will have a great crop this year. The poor tree when we got the house was almost dead so I am very pleased by her happy recovery. We have mature almonds at the moment which the black&nbsp;cockatoo's&nbsp;are munching on, they are beautiful big birds and Luke is delighted to see them in the afternoon. Not bad for a city girl who didn't know anything about gardens!<br /><br />Last week Luke and I went to the farmer's market near our home and &nbsp;they had strawberries on&nbsp;special, so I bought 1,5 kg for less then 4 dollars. Too much for our house hold so I decided to make jam out of 1kg of&nbsp;strawberries. I used Jamie's&nbsp;Oliver's&nbsp;recipe and I am sad to say this but, it didn't work too well. I used the special jam sugar but it is still was runny even though I left it to boil much longer than in the recipe requested. It is still yummy,&nbsp;don't&nbsp;get me wrong you can still eat it but it is more like a&nbsp;strawberry&nbsp;sauce than jam. Well I guess next time I will make it with normal white sugar, I think it would set better and also be less acidic.<br /><br />Grandma bought for me a huge pumpkin so I also had more than a kilo of&nbsp;pumpkin&nbsp;in the fridge which I&nbsp;didn't&nbsp;know what to do with, so I decided to make pumpkin bread. I used this great recipe from <a href="http://www.thefreshloaf.com/recipes/pumpkinbread">FRESH LOAF</a>. It turned out perfect so I have two small loafs which I will bring one to grandma when Luke wakes up from his nap. She is has the flu so I can am sure she will enjoy the bread. I changed the recipe a bit I added more spices than the recipe and also used a little less flower (just 3 cups), also I added soaked&nbsp;raisins in orange liquor and walnuts. Like Luke says when he smells something nice hmmmmmmmmmmmm!! Enjoy the pictures of the garden and the loafs!<br /><br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com.au/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="600" height="400" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com.au&captions=1&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com.au%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5527400534925973585%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-26624741150909795732010-10-06T01:17:00.004+11:002010-10-06T01:30:03.520+11:00I love this video!!! Enjoy<object width="500" height="400"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZW7yhS8pc7s?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZW7yhS8pc7s?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="400"></embed></object>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-10258533326296677042010-09-26T23:44:00.001+10:002010-09-27T00:09:05.114+10:00I love Spring!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TJ9D5y_ILCI/AAAAAAAAPf4/JIS3mAK1zGM/s1600/IMG_6249.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TJ9D5y_ILCI/AAAAAAAAPf4/JIS3mAK1zGM/s320/IMG_6249.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">We had a lovely weekend, the weather was just perfect! Rob and I were cleaning the gutters and eaves through out the week to get them ready to paint. So today we started painting the eaves and downpipes all white, we decided the gutters looked good enough once cleaned up. It's amazing how some paint can make such a difference, we are not done yet but it is already looking like a different house.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Yesterday Aline came by to visit us, I was very happy to see her and Nina because we haven't seen each other for over 5 months. It was a nice&nbsp;surprise&nbsp;when she left me a message in facebook saying she was coming to Perth for the long weekend. She spent the afternoon with us, Nina and Luke were all hugs and kisses; very cute! Tania, Glen and the boys came by in the end of the afternoon also for some hot-dogs, it was great to see them because we also needed to catch up. So our Saturday was a day with good friends, simple food and great weather, I couldn't ask for anything better!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Today while Rob was finishing painting, I took Luke to Lansdale Farm (petting farm) so he could work in peace and Luke could be&nbsp;entertained&nbsp;for a couple of hours. We had some great news also form Kel, she had a beautiful, healthy baby boy, so in the end of the afternoon Luke and I went to visit her in the hospital (which is three blocks away from my house, handy or what?). I got a little teary when I was holding the little bundle of joy, I must admit that I miss the baby phase even with the sleeping&nbsp;deprivation. It was so great to see Kel and Harley so happy with their little angel. Well that's all the news for now, enjoy all the photos from the farm and Kings Park. Take everyone!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><embed flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com.au&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com.au%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5521206300260480225%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" height="267" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://picasaweb.google.com.au/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"></embed><br /><br /><embed flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com.au&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com.au%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5521205782939529441%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" height="267" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://picasaweb.google.com.au/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"></embed><br /><br /><embed flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com.au&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com.au%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5521205060213378241%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" height="267" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://picasaweb.google.com.au/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"></embed>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-57006836663685623092010-09-21T22:10:00.001+10:002010-09-21T22:11:34.610+10:00REDWORK REDWORK REDWORK!!!!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Redwork-WORKBASKET-Designs-Machine-Embroidery/dp/0896899721?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=glitterlife-20&amp;link_code=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Redwork from The WORKBASKET: 100 Designs for Machine and Hand Embroidery" height="200" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=0896899721&amp;tag=glitterlife-20" width="152" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glitterlife-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0896899721" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Its been pretty hectic around here in the land of OZ. Luke is growing so fast, he is a little boy running around the house and outside&nbsp;in the garden in the spring sun. It seems like it was just last month he was crawling <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glitterlife-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0896899721" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />around the house.</span>&nbsp;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Its crazy how time passes so fast once you have kids!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">&nbsp;So not only Luke keeps me on my toes throughout the day, renovations have begun here too. Which means, money is tight, trades man coming and going and chaos rains in my little&nbsp;kingdom. Our bathroom renovations have come to a halt because of lack of fund and of tiles due to no more funds to buy more tiles but most of Luke's bathroom is done. Renovation in Luke's bathroom will&nbsp;commence&nbsp;again in November but our roof and ceiling will be fixed next month because May's freak storm damaged both.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></span><br /><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Spring has finally arrived here in OZ and all the flowers are blooming, magpies are starting to swoop and the days are becoming warmer. Most of you know that we have a big back yard which has been neglected for years from the&nbsp;previous&nbsp;owners, so with spring here, there is a lot of work to be done in the garden. Rob took this week off, so we could do a so needed spring cleaning in and outside our house. So since Saturday we have been busy outside picking weeds with Luke and&nbsp;trimming&nbsp;back some of the bushes. Also I have been busy with my herb and veggie patch, adding some compost to the ground and planting some seedlings. Hopefully my&nbsp;zucchini&nbsp;seedlings with&nbsp;flourish and all my flower seedlings too.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">So you must be wondering why my post reads Redwork instead of gardening&nbsp;galore? Because I finally started on Kim's wall quilt, she just had her third baby girl&nbsp;a couple of weeks ago!!! So I am making for all three little ones a Redwork wall hanging. Its coming along great, considering I have never done any embroidery before, but pretty much its all straight stitch in red&nbsp;embroidery&nbsp;cotton thread, a no&nbsp;brainer&nbsp;really. If you would like to know more about the history of Redwork go <a href="http://www.redworkplus.com/dynamic/?page=3">here</a>.So as you all can see, its been pretty busy around here. I will post some photos once the quilt is finished because I&nbsp;don't&nbsp;want to spoil the&nbsp;surprise&nbsp;for Kim, this also goes for the photos of the renovations seeing its not ready yet. Here are some more photo of Redwork but not made from me.Well take care everyone.</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__kcvbgCED-0/SfgCIRBqxlI/AAAAAAAACN8/l-ecYttLXHs/s1600/redwork+swap.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__kcvbgCED-0/SfgCIRBqxlI/AAAAAAAACN8/l-ecYttLXHs/s320/redwork+swap.JPG" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="http://lifeatrosemaryhill.blogspot.com/">Life at Rosemary Hill</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WsafB8syOcc/SYj13Q4UsFI/AAAAAAAADxo/Qmg3psW4XD0/s1600/Redwork+.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://acardaday.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/mini-redwork/">&nbsp;A cup and a catch up...</a></div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-18112229229633974412010-07-19T16:43:00.000+10:002010-07-19T16:43:23.060+10:00Handmade SHORT FILM by Dennis Kamioka<object height="216" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1385538&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1385538&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="216"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/1385538">DENIS KAMIOKA - Handmade</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/nkcrida">nkcrida</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;">Denis Kamioka is a Brazilian Japanese director who made the following 6-minute short in 2006.&nbsp; It’s hard to describe but it has some neat effects. &nbsp;Check out the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;">&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;"><a href="http://www.handmademovie.com/" style="color: #004276; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">official site</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;">. &nbsp;Enjoy!!!</span>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-72018237628672566652010-07-04T02:58:00.002+10:002010-07-04T03:04:12.062+10:001st Family Holidays<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TC9rrlYUEcI/AAAAAAAAPXs/sBEB7jeIuY8/s1600/CIMG0477.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/TC9rrlYUEcI/AAAAAAAAPXs/sBEB7jeIuY8/s320/CIMG0477.JPG" width="320" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rob had to go to Singapore for a work convention and so we&nbsp;decided that Luke and I should join him. His parents are living in Singapore at the moment and are staying till November for work. We all left Perth excited to start our first family holidays. Luke was very good in the plane and he was so excited by everything that he just manged to sleep when we were landing in Singapore.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So while Rob was at the convention for the first week, Luke and I enjoyed Tiiu's (Rob's mom) company and the pool facilities of the Caribbean&nbsp;condominium where his parents are&nbsp;staying. The weather was very warm and humid and sometimes it was a bit too much for Luke and I, but we managed well. Tiiu is&nbsp;truly&nbsp;a great tourist guide, she took us too all the places that one should go while in Singapore. Rob and I are just&nbsp;horrible&nbsp;tourists, if it was up to us poor Luke&nbsp;wouldn't&nbsp;have seen nothing but the pool of the condo! But Luke, Tiiu and I had a great first week together while Rob did his networking in the convention for work. Rob and I had also a chance to go out together a couple of&nbsp;evenings which was great while grandma and&nbsp;granddad&nbsp;took care of Luke for us.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;We took Luke to the Night Safari but forgot to take the camera!!! Luke loved it and was pointing at the animals, he&nbsp;didn't&nbsp;know where to look by the end of it. He managed to stay up till we got in the bus back to the city! Tiiu and I managed to get a few hours to explore Arab Street and buy some fabric, they also had some beautiful Persian Rugs that I would love to own. Also we all went during our first weekend to the Singapore Botanic Gardens which was the most beautiful park I have ever seen and been to in all my travels, specially their&nbsp;Orchid&nbsp;Garden. The weather&nbsp;didn't&nbsp;help us at the Botanic Gardens it was too hot and we&nbsp;didn't&nbsp;manage to stay longer and explore the gardens a little further.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;Orchard Road was a place which I was amazed by all the beautiful malls and I had never seen so many&nbsp;designer&nbsp;shops in one street but what I enjoyed most in Orchard Road was the Japanese department store (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.takashimaya-sin.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Takashimaya</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;I just love Japanese fashion, food and life style so that store and the 2 dollar Japanese shop in Vivo Mall in&nbsp;Harbor&nbsp;Front were both, my favorite places to go shopping. While we are in the subject of shopping I bought two very cute pair of shoes for Luke for a bargain price, both pairs are real&nbsp;leather. One is a pair of&nbsp;boots&nbsp;and the other a pair of trainers for $20 dollars&nbsp;Singapore each, if I would have bought these shoes here I would have paid around 60 dollars each. I think the shopping experience in Singapore is just amazing!!! &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One would not go all the way to Singapore and forget to have a refreshment in Raffles Hotel. So that is what Rob, Tiiu , Luke and I did, but I was shocked that three&nbsp;coffees&nbsp;cost us $35 dollars!!! But you are not paying for the coffee but for the experience, still that was a very expensive 15 minutes of my life which left me with a bit of a bitter sweet after taste. One cant ignore though what a beautiful Hotel it is, colonial in style and very well maintained so it is a must see if in Singapore even if the coffee is expensive.&nbsp;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also spend an afternoon in Sintoza Island which was very hot but very nice for Luke to swim in the sea even though it was as warm as a hot bath, still we had a wonderful time and I had the best dumpling noddle soup of my life in the food hall. Luke through out the trip was like a celebrity baby, all Asian family's wanting to take picture with him. Every where we went people would stop us and want pictures with Luke by the end of the trip Rob and I were almost charging for pictures with Luke hahaha...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On our way back to Perth Luke slept for two full hours. Everyone was amazed of how good he was but I also did bring loads of toys for him so he was busy with something for most of the time. Once we got home all three of us were popped beyond belief. We were all in bed by 8:30pm. The next day Luke didnt want to leave the cot in morning and is still doing this oday, he just stays there playing with the light on (he found out how to switch the lights &nbsp;on in his bedroom). So I have had a great week waking up at 10:00 am! So life is good even though we miss Singapore maybe we need more holidays so Luke can miss his cot and I can have a sleep in every morning.&nbsp;</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><embed flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;captions=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5489144330050910689%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" height="267" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"></embed><br /><br /><embed flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;captions=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5489146012207834593%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" height="267" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"></embed><br /><br /><embed flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;captions=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5489147417449745585%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" height="267" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"></embed><br /><br /><embed flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;captions=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5489148490042360017%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" height="267" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"></embed>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-66458662544378962032010-05-25T01:08:00.005+10:002010-05-25T22:42:20.829+10:00Perth 2010 Quilting Show!<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475093998598903458" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S_tw-8JcVqI/AAAAAAAAOyg/wcwVjfAk9K4/s320/Photo020.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 320px;" /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">My poor blog is so neglected that its not funny anymore. But its been a very busy beginning of the year and I am really trying to update it as much as I can; its just that during the day Luke wont let me near the computer. If I am at the computer just to check my email very quickly I get a little demanding boy crying by my side wanting to play with my keyboard. Not only that, Rob got me the new Samsung mobile with the touch screen, which I was happy but when we installed the software in my laptop it just crashed my windows explorer! Thank god I have a smart husband because he managed to save all my documents, photos and songs but we will need to re-install windows again! I was so peeved that every time I look at the phone I get upset, not only that; the bloody thing doesn't work properly so I cant send any email just receive, apparently I am not the only one with all these problems!!! We are at the moment seeing if we can return the bloody thing and get an iphone for me instead.</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Any way this weekend was really great! We had our annual WA quilt show. I spend the whole Sunday from 9-5 buzzzy like a bee around wonderful creative quilts and also beautiful fabrics, gadgets and quilt notions. Bought some really neat tools, like<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/txt/s2287744.htm"><b> the adjustable quilting rulers</b></a>. It is an Ozzy invention check out the video...its pretty neat. It was pricey but will make my live easier when quilting. Got two nice books with<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jelly-Roll-Quilts-Pam-Lintott/dp/0715328638?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=glitterlife-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969" target="_blank"> Jelly Roles patterns</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glitterlife-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0715328638" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> which of course I got one J<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moda-HUNKY-JELLY-Fabric-Strips/dp/B0038BY92S?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=glitterlife-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969" target="_blank">elly Role fabric</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glitterlife-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0038BY92S" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> pack also so I can make a quilt for my bed. I found some cheap $1 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wooden-Craft-Buttons-8-Oz-Bag/dp/B000GPNM8G?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=glitterlife-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969" target="_blank">wooden buttons</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glitterlife-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000GPNM8G" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> which was a bargain. Got some cute <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doodle-Stitching-Collection-Embroidery-Designs/dp/1600595812?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=glitterlife-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969" target="_blank">Christmas embroidery</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glitterlife-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=1600595812" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> to make cute tree han<span id="goog_568834190"></span><span id="goog_568834191"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a>gings. Got a wonderful <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Clover-Bias-1-Inch-Tape-Maker/dp/B001703IYW?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=glitterlife-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969" target="_blank">Bias making tool from clover.</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glitterlife-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001703IYW" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glitterlife-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001703IYW" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I could go on and on but the rest was just small things nothing too flashy. Rob took care of Luke and called me around 13:00 pm to see how everything was going and asking how much longer I would stay...hahaha I told till it closed. Luke is teething at the moment, his molars are all coming out at once so he is very cranky. Poor Rob was completely exhausted when I got home at 17:00pm. So I made a nice dinner for my two special guys and cuddle up with them in front of the telly.</span></b></span></b><br /><b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well I hope you all enjoy the pictures of the quilt show and have fun with Lukes walking video...its pretty funny. Big hugs to all.</div><div><br /><embed flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5474872307196656241%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" height="400" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600"></embed><br /><br /><object height="525" width="660"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/b9_F3jtpWtc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b9_F3jtpWtc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="660" height="525"></embed></object></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-16567373305408357182010-02-25T13:44:00.014+11:002010-05-25T22:44:17.727+10:00DIY- How to re-upholster dinning chairs!<div align="justify"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442017995240268610" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4XuiJuUY0I/AAAAAAAAOeU/5Ie4J5ohdn8/s200/DIY+ICON.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 95px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 99px;" /> As promised here is my first DIY post. I have 4 dinning chairs that were in urgent need of an update. We have had these chairs for more than 9 years. The base had still the linen cover which we kept saying,"we will upholster them soon" but just never did get to it. So this weekend I had enough of the dirty, dingy look and got Rob to get me to Bunnings (its like a home-depot store) so I could buy a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arrow-Fastener-T50-Heavy-Staple/dp/B00002ND61?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=glitterlife-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969" target="_blank">staple gun</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glitterlife-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00002ND61" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />. Yesterday while Luke had his afternoon nap, I got busy. I went to my fabric stash and choose a nice printed fabric that I bought while in the US. It is a cotton fabric for quilting but I think that doesn't really matter. So choose a fabric that you love and get busy. I used this <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Reupholster-a-Dining-Chair-Seat">video</a> as a guide. Sure enough, it took me one hour to do all 4 chairs, its so easy that I felt really stupid for letting 8 years pass by before changing the base fabric of the chairs. So here are the pictures of before and after:<br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><strong>BEFORE </strong></span></div><strong><span style="color: red;"></span></strong><br /><br /><div align="justify"><div><div><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4Xv_YASpYI/AAAAAAAAOec/78mfBNeldt8/s1600-h/IMG_5942.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442019596801582466" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4Xv_YASpYI/AAAAAAAAOec/78mfBNeldt8/s200/IMG_5942.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 112px;" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4XqnCthtCI/AAAAAAAAOdw/vsAqJx12fnQ/s1600-h/IMG_5943.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442013681210733602" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4XqnCthtCI/AAAAAAAAOdw/vsAqJx12fnQ/s200/IMG_5943.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 112px;" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4Xp8jWKhiI/AAAAAAAAOdo/JXk0QUf3Igo/s1600-h/IMG_5944.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442012951236740642" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4Xp8jWKhiI/AAAAAAAAOdo/JXk0QUf3Igo/s200/IMG_5944.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 112px;" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4XrGSz4JQI/AAAAAAAAOd4/vsFOO5L0sSE/s1600-h/IMG_5937.JPG"></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4Xm-GLRemI/AAAAAAAAOdY/N1Rmz5X5ynQ/s1600-h/IMG_5942.JPG"></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">AFTER</span></strong><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4XweK1m7jI/AAAAAAAAOek/b4vSTN6EONI/s1600-h/IMG_5941.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442020125843058226" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4XweK1m7jI/AAAAAAAAOek/b4vSTN6EONI/s200/IMG_5941.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 112px;" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4XsBWvayqI/AAAAAAAAOeA/y1XUwNZWhYo/s1600-h/IMG_5938.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442015232775604898" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4XsBWvayqI/AAAAAAAAOeA/y1XUwNZWhYo/s200/IMG_5938.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 112px;" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4XsZVPA0-I/AAAAAAAAOeI/VwI7DXYY-2w/s1600-h/IMG_5940.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442015644688110562" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4XsZVPA0-I/AAAAAAAAOeI/VwI7DXYY-2w/s200/IMG_5940.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 112px;" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4XrGSz4JQI/AAAAAAAAOd4/vsFOO5L0sSE/s1600-h/IMG_5937.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442014218108282114" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4XrGSz4JQI/AAAAAAAAOd4/vsFOO5L0sSE/s200/IMG_5937.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 112px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4Xm-GLRemI/AAAAAAAAOdY/N1Rmz5X5ynQ/s1600-h/IMG_5942.JPG"></a></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><div>It looks great!!! I am very happy with the results. So get busy people and don't worry its so easy that you will wonder why you didn't do this sooner. Take care! </div></div></div><br /></div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-87347723611262127172010-02-23T15:28:00.005+11:002010-03-04T00:35:23.043+11:00Busy as a Bee!!!<div align="justify"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4NhsTkS8AI/AAAAAAAAOcs/ZJs3ODRGkBY/s1600-h/CIMG0031.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441300188588339202" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/S4NhsTkS8AI/AAAAAAAAOcs/ZJs3ODRGkBY/s320/CIMG0031.JPG" /></a> Hi Everyone sorry yet again for the long silence but it really seems that there are not enough hours in a day to get all things done, specially updating my blog!! We FINALLY moved in to the "new" house. Of course like any renovation we had more costs involved then we thought at the purchase of the house. As mentioned in my previous post we were going to renovate the kitchen but unfortunately that did not happen seeing we found leaks in both bathrooms in the house. The leaks were so bad that we had mold all over, underneath the carpets on the walls, so we naturally had to replace the whole floors with new timber floating boards, which the costs of this and the repairs to the bathroom showers had us scraping at our budget. So kitchen is not done and looks like a war zone. At the moment I have no cook top or oven, been cooking with our microwave oven (which is on its last legs:meaning we will need to replace the bloody thing soon enough) and the barbecue. I was very fortunate to have my mother in lay give me a electric frying pan, it really saved the day!!! I have no pantry so cant really take anything out of the boxes just the essential stuff that I use everyday. My dishwasher is a storage area for all the plates, cups and cutlery.<br /></div><div align="justify"><br />Now enough ranting....Luke is doing very well. He is almost crawling properly all his little teeth are coming out and he is just an adorable little man. My mom left back to Holland on the 5th of Feb and we do miss her so. Luke specially, was very cranking for a week! I have been pretty busy getting our garden looking descent after many years of neglect of the previous owner. But we can see the light on the end of the tunnel. I have planted a little herb garden which is looking pretty good for some one who never had a chance to do any gardening in her life! Unfortunately I have no pictures for all of you because I have no clue where my cables are to be able to upload pictures on to the computer, this is another item on my to do list for this weekend. We also managed to start of our compost bin last weekend so all the veggie scarps and bread scraps are being put for a good use. We also have a recycle bin now which is a great relief because in the previous house there was none and every time I had to throw out glass, paper and plastic my heart filled with guilt! We also had insulation put in, in the nick of time before the <a href="http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/garrett/2010/mr20100219.html">government rebates </a>were scrapped because of <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/01/2729756.htm">government scandal </a>regarding it. So we only paid $120 to insulate the whole roof. We can really feel the difference now, its not as hot as it was when we moved in, seeing we had no insulation and no air-con, it was blood hot in here!! But all in all the house does look much better, we had everything painted and new showers. Once I find the cables I will put pictures up of before and after. Its far from done but its getting there slowly.</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">In the crafty front I have started a little sweater for Luke. Its a free pattern from <a href="http://www.lionbrand.com/cgi-bin/patternView.fcgi?itemKey=1922243469">Lion Brand.</a> Also two weekends ago had a great Saturday with my mother in law. We took grandma to these really nice fabric shops for patchwork and also had a coffee with some cake at <a href="http://www.woollylattes.com/">Wolly Latte's</a> (its a yarn shop that has a really nice little cafe inside with some great coffee and wonderful cakes). Also when we went to get Tiiu's things as patchwork workshop that she organised, there was this lady who gave the workshop who takes care of little orphan Joey's (Baby Kangaroo). She had one with her and it really was the sweetest thing ever, Luke was so impressed and he even stroked it a couple of times. So so sweet, I have the pictures but yet again no cable grrrrr... Well that is all the update I have time for today. Hope all of you are well. Take care!</div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-30820250997173429862009-12-31T11:30:00.005+11:002009-12-31T13:30:33.771+11:00Merry Christmas and happy New Year 2010!!!<div align="justify"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Vvr4k48a5h2vNp_aLoa29g?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/SzVOlxEqOWI/AAAAAAAAOa8/30SgJUtEhJg/s288/scan%203-1.jpg" /></a>My poor blog has been neglected for a while but with the house renovations I have been too busy to write anything. My mother has come to OZ and is staying with us till Feb which has been a wonderful Christmas gift for me. She has been a tremendous help with Luke while we are off to the house to get it all done before we move in on the 10th of Jan. We had a wonderful first Christmas together as a family and I was glad my mom was here to share this special time with us. We all went to my mother in law's house for Christmas and Luke just got so excited by all the wrapped boxes which he found out later on the day that inside the boxes there were toys too. We had a wonderful Christmas lunch and after that unwrapped all the gifts, it really was a special day. So tonight we are going to go to friends house for the passing of the New Year and enjoy our selves a bit before the big move. Slowly we are already packing and I am having a chance to get rid of some clutter on the way. Also I am going through all my wardrobes and giving away all the clothes that don't fit me anymore, which I have been clinging to with the hope that some day I will fit them again. I guess I need to be realistic and just give them to someone who can actually wear them instead of them just sitting in the closets year after year. So my new year resolutions are:<br /><br />1) Get rid of clutter<br /><br />2) Not buying things I don't need<br /><br />3) Stop smoking again<br /><br />4)Get more active and exercise<br /><br />5) Eat healthy<br /><br />I wish all of you a wonderful New Year and that all of you can reach your New Year resolutions! Enjoy a great Christams song!</div><div align="justify"> </div><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fCNvZqpa-7Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fCNvZqpa-7Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-60087130152384128862009-10-30T19:47:00.003+11:002009-11-01T21:39:49.838+11:00Home Sweet Home!!!<div align="justify"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/SuqofUg8MDI/AAAAAAAAOVw/-POo6Kyhusk/s1600-h/IMG_5843.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398312359393243186" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/SuqofUg8MDI/AAAAAAAAOVw/-POo6Kyhusk/s320/IMG_5843.JPG" /></a> Its been really busy around here in Oz. So many big events going on that I don't even no were to start. First, a month ago we received notice that the owner of the house we are living at the moment was having issues with the tax department. Because of this he will be needing to move back into the house in January 2010, so we found our selves homeless! So we started at full gear looking for a new rental place and re-thinking the whole, "lets wait another year to buy a house". So we started looking into sale properties and rental. After some search in the past two weeks we found an affordable 4 by 2 in a good neighbourhood, just walking distance from my mother in law. Its a great location, the neighbourhood is very green with loads of beautiful parks. The schools in the area are one of the best in Perth so for Luke this will be very good. The house is only a short walk to the shops and almost in front of the house there is a small park with huge gumtrees and a little playground for Luke. It is also in a cul-de-sac which means no big traffic so if Luke wants to play on the street he can. The house itself is on a big land 736 square meters (for Brazilian standards this is not very big but for Dutch standards this is huge!). It has an awesome big back yard with two peach trees, one mandarin tree and one lime tree so loads of "caipirinhas or margaritas" in the future. The house inside is very tiered, it needs a good scrub and a good paint job. A new kitchen is also a must in the house and floors too. All in all its a great house with so much potential, so we bought the house!!! I am very excited because its my first property and its all mine which makes a big difference from renting all the time. We got a good price for it and because we need to gut the inside we can change and do what ever we want. So very very exciting times to come ahead, I made some pictures of the inside and as you can see there are still tenants in the house but they will be gone by next week. So we probably will get the keys in December. So will start a DIY section on my blog with all the before and after photos to inspire anyone doing some renovations or thinking of renovating. </div><p align="justify"><br /></p><div align="justify">Second big event around here was Luke today, he started crawling backwards or pushing himself backwards. So he is mobile now, which means for me more work in getting the house baby prof, so I guess in a couple weeks to come he will be crawling.</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">Third big event was my brother in laws first photographic exposition in an art gallery. He was in the newspapers and all. That was last night, Rob and I were very proud of him and already ordered our Christmas presents (just kidding)!!</div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Yesterday was Halloween and we spent it at Tania's and Glen's place. It was so funny Tania had dressed up as Princess Leia from star wars, she looked awesome!!! Glen was Count Dracula, rob and I just didn't have the time to really dress up though, but we had a great time. The boys smashed a pinhata and had a blast with the treasure hunt. Unfortunately forgot to take my camera so no pictures...naughty Alex. So very busy weekend, now we are leaving to have brunch with Rob's uncle and the rest of the family. We all are going to say goodbye to one of Rob's cousins who is leaving to South of France to work as a wine expert in a winery. Have fun with all the new videos and pictures of Luke and the new house. </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NcodFTgIgrM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NcodFTgIgrM&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/L78J9jKEcKc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/L78J9jKEcKc&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><embed height="267" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="400" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5398210080896764993%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US"></embed><br /><br /><embed height="267" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="400" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5398207820460905009%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US"></embed>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-50020226959238583442009-09-29T13:48:00.004+10:002009-11-01T21:40:01.585+11:00First time at the beach!<div align="justify"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/SsGJxgRlJ5I/AAAAAAAAORQ/MZDtLEWpj1E/s1600-h/IMG_5797.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386738112882091922" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/SsGJxgRlJ5I/AAAAAAAAORQ/MZDtLEWpj1E/s320/IMG_5797.JPG" /></a> Here in Oz we had a long weekend which was pretty full on. On Saturday we spent the afternoon with Tania, Glen and the kids. We went to the park near their house and Glen and Rob entertained the kids with a bottle rocket launcher. It was great and all the kids in the park were very intrigued by the rocket. Glen made a video and its on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=1231051143204">facebook</a> (don't know if the link will work) for those of you who want to check it out. Luke had his first time on a swing and he just loved it. </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">It was a wonderful sunny day on Saturday and on the Sunday the weather was even better. Around midday on Sunday we met Aline, Paco and Nina for lunch at the beach. We had lunch at Trigg beach cafe and the food was the best I had since arriving in Perth. The weather was just wonderful, 26 degrees Celsius!!! So after a long winter we finally manged to go to the beach and soak up the sun a bit. Nina and Luke saw the beach for the first time and cried when we put them on the water, I guess the water was still too cold for them. Luke was just mesmerised by the beach with its birds , sand and sea. The sun was pretty strong so I had to slime Luke with sun protection and keep him in the shade for most of it, but still it was just wonderful day. </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Monday Luke and Rob spend the day at Grandma's and I stayed at home having some time for myself, unfortunately didn't get to do any crafts because the house was a mess and it needed some good cleaning. Managed to do so much, I forgot how easy it can be to clean the house when you don't have a baby interrupting you every 10 minutes!</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">I also started a scrapblog a while ago and thought it would be great to share it with all of you. I am doing this for my family so I can print it out when Luke turns one, so they can have a photobook of Luke's first year. Its turning out nicely, would recommend the <a href="http://www.scrapblog.com/">site</a> to any one wanting to do a scarpblog-book. Its a free site and very user friendly, check it out! Well will leave you all here and hope all is well. Enjoy the photos and the scrapblog.</div><p align="left"><br /><br /><embed height="267" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="400" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5386127970626671105%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US"></embed><br /><br /><object width="420" height="312"><param name="movie" value="http://www.scrapblog.com/viewer/viewer_v2_embed.swf?scrapblogId=2170575&amp;showShareButton=true&amp;showShareInitially=true&amp;showOnlyShare=false&amp;partnerId=1"><embed src="http://www.scrapblog.com/viewer/viewer_v2_embed.swf?scrapblogId=2170575&showShareButton=true&showShareInitially=true&showOnlyShare=false&partnerId=1" width="420" height="312"></embed></object></p>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-1528069577050238472009-09-22T21:53:00.004+10:002009-09-22T22:36:15.420+10:00Its Fun to Play and Dance!<div align="justify"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/SrjBpKtbBSI/AAAAAAAAOQM/xipE6Q-iaRM/s1600-h/IMG_4406.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384266267515094306" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/SrjBpKtbBSI/AAAAAAAAOQM/xipE6Q-iaRM/s320/IMG_4406.JPG" /></a> Luke is getting funnier by the minute. I had to share the video below with all of you because this little man keeps making me laugh all day long! He is truly a happy baby who loves to play and have fun but it leaves me with no time at all to be crafty and I am starting to miss my machine! Oh, you might be wondering why I have a picture of ducks here but these two little fellows decided to just hang around on our roof one afternoon. I just hope they don't make a nest up there, also Luke was finding this very funny and kept yelling at the ducks!My mom and dad are arriving in Perth on the 10th of October so I just cant wait for them to be here with us and share with us our special moments. My mom will see Luke for the first time,she has seen him through photos and video calls but not in person so he will be a very spoiled little man in a couple of weeks time. I hope you enjoy the video and photos! The photos you just click on it and will take you to my web album. Will hopefully be able to post some crafty things soon!<br /><br /><br /><object width="640" height="505"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/clX9P8ZCyS8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/clX9P8ZCyS8&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="505"></embed></object><br /><table style="WIDTH: 194px"><tbody><tr><td style="BACKGROUND: url(http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left 50%; HEIGHT: 194px" align="middle"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/glitterlife.nl/FunnyFaces?feat=embedwebsite"><img style="MARGIN: 1px 0px 0px 4px" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/Sri38rQygOE/AAAAAAAAOPk/8uqoVoqdRgc/s160-c/FunnyFaces.jpg" width="160" height="160" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 11px"><a style="COLOR: #4d4d4d; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/glitterlife.nl/FunnyFaces?feat=embedwebsite">Funny faces</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table style="WIDTH: 194px"><tbody><tr><td style="BACKGROUND: url(http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left 50%; HEIGHT: 194px" align="middle"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/glitterlife.nl/BathTime?feat=embedwebsite"><img style="MARGIN: 1px 0px 0px 4px" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/SrIBhuZo0dE/AAAAAAAAOMo/eixY1_Sau88/s160-c/BathTime.jpg" width="160" height="160" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 11px"><a style="COLOR: #4d4d4d; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/glitterlife.nl/BathTime?feat=embedwebsite">Bath Time!</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table style="WIDTH: 194px"><tbody><tr><td style="BACKGROUND: url(http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left 50%; HEIGHT: 194px" align="middle"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/glitterlife.nl/HavingFunWithGrandma?feat=embedwebsite"><img style="MARGIN: 1px 0px 0px 4px" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/Sri4awIl3mE/AAAAAAAAOPc/sb-XxqwFSak/s160-c/HavingFunWithGrandma.jpg" width="160" height="160" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 11px"><a style="COLOR: #4d4d4d; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/glitterlife.nl/HavingFunWithGrandma?feat=embedwebsite">Having fun with Grandma</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-50041410136250541802009-09-11T22:01:00.010+10:002009-09-22T21:51:10.091+10:00Its Play time!<div align="justify"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/Sqo_S2S6lFI/AAAAAAAAOIY/kmwz6qvaVpY/s1600-h/IMG_4403_1.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380182297892525138" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/Sqo_S2S6lFI/AAAAAAAAOIY/kmwz6qvaVpY/s320/IMG_4403_1.JPG" /></a> Luke is growing so fast that it seems like ever day he is learning something new. His grandmother found some old toys that where from my husband when he was a bub! So Luke got some exciting vintage toys to explore. His favorite is the ball with shapes which he still cant find the corresponding shape to fit into the ball. But he has manged to get a few in when mummy helps him. He just loves it when the shape fits and disappears inside the ball, he goes on and on giggling in delight of his achievement. Luke is also starting to sit on his own but I still keep some cushions around him just in case he loses balance and falls over. After two weeks of the whole family being ill and Luke having to have a trip to the emergency room, its great to see him feeling like himself again. I haven't had the time to do any crafts lately because I was also ill and feeling very run down but hopefully this weekend I can continue to work on Luca's quilt. As you all can see I have changed the look of my blog and I think I am finally satisfied with it. I also added snapshot, which means; in places with links you can see a snapshot of the website, its a pretty cool tool. I hope all of you are well and enjoy the videos and pictures below.</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><br /><br /><object width="1500" height="1402"><param name="movie" value="http://www.scrapblog.com/viewer/viewer_v2_embed.swf?scrapblogId=2177493&amp;showShareButton=true&amp;showShareInitially=true&amp;showOnlyShare=false&amp;partnerId=1"><embed src="http://www.scrapblog.com/viewer/viewer_v2_embed.swf?scrapblogId=2177493&showShareButton=true&showShareInitially=true&showOnlyShare=false&partnerId=1" width="420" height="312"></embed></object></div><br /><br /><object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/1WsZlhbV_5Y&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/1WsZlhbV_5Y&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/5j0Jibc34Zc&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/5j0Jibc34Zc&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-62330469026063980992009-08-20T16:51:00.008+10:002009-09-22T21:51:10.091+10:00Just Keep Swimming!!!<div align="justify"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/Soz0voYMG8I/AAAAAAAAOE8/K2MyOjCf7dI/s1600-h/IMG_5685.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 180px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371937554676063170" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/Soz0voYMG8I/AAAAAAAAOE8/K2MyOjCf7dI/s320/IMG_5685.JPG" /></a>Swimming is a big part of OZ life so we decided to enroll Luke early for swimming lessons. I think is a great way also for bub and daddy to have some quality time together during the weekend. Also I can go swimming and do some sauna while they are busy with the lesson, so on the end everyone is happy. Luke didn't know what to make of his first swimming and cried a little, his instructor told us that it is normal and by the third time he will start to really enjoy it. By the second lesson he was enjoying it more and cried less. When the lesson is over we change Luke and give him his bottle and before we reach the car he is in a very deep sleep. Its funny because he doesn't even wake up when we strap him in the baby seat in the car and usually he is very light sleeper. So now during bath time Luke starts kicking the same way he does during his swimming lesson and he just laughs away while mommy gets completely wet. So here are videos and pictures of my little swimmer. Also I added the pictures of the little elephant Eli that I made, its my design also which is the first for me. Hope you all enjoy!!!! </div><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5AzoAp2AHeo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5AzoAp2AHeo&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br /><p align="center"><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XA4oeBHLVyI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XA4oeBHLVyI&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object></p><br /><br /><div align="center"><embed height="267" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="400" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5371687132192036977%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US"></embed></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><embed height="267" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="400" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5371687399582589297%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US"></embed></div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-75116869799732334522009-08-02T01:34:00.006+10:002009-08-02T02:33:52.211+10:00Winter = crafty projects!!!<div align="justify"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/SnRuVR4CRTI/AAAAAAAAOBc/YcYKhr52mpM/s1600-h/IMG_5548_2.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 112px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365034367959844146" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/SnRuVR4CRTI/AAAAAAAAOBc/YcYKhr52mpM/s200/IMG_5548_2.JPG" /></a> Winter for me was always cold, wet and windy when living for 12 years in Holland and as any one in Holland I was always complaining about the cold, the wind and the darkness that engulfed the land during the 6 months of Autumn and Winter. Snuggling under a warm wool blanket with woolly socks with a nice hot cuppa tea watching movies was something that I used to love to do in the cold dark winter months. This has long changed since we moved to OZ. Mind you, it is still cold for us here, Rob and I even bought a gas heater to warm up our little house in the evenings but nothing at all like the winter's in Europe. My red winter coat has been left in the dark closet and has not been worn at all this winter in OZ. I guess I am still not completely acclimatized to the weather because when I go out for walks with Luke everyone seems to be wearing their winter coats and scarves. But for me its just a nice sunny day and only a light jacket is needed to keep me warm. It has rained a bit, which meant that Luke and I stayed inside most of these wet days, giving me a chance to finish a couple of projects that have been sitting beside my sewing machine. I also went for a workshop and made Luke a very cute bean bag to sit, when he gets older. The shop that gives these workshops has become my favorite fabric shop in Perth. Its called <a href="http://www.hotpossum.com/catalog/"><span style="color:#6600cc;">Hot Possum</span></a>, it is such a wonderful little shop with a great selection of fabrics. They also have a lovely <a href="http://hotpossum.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#6600cc;">blog</span></a> where you can see all their quilts and other designs. So I have been busy while Luke sleeps or has his naps during the day. I managed to finish a little pram quilt for Kim's new baby boy. Also made some baby pants and a little elephant (which I forgot to take pictures) for Isobel. I think Kim must be receiving the parcel next week, I hope everything fits the baby because they do grow so fast. I also am working on Luca's quilt which I hope to finish for him for Christmas and my latest project is a cute cover for my sewing machine. I am still getting used to the mild winter here in OZ and still feel a thrill that most days the sun is out and the weather is around 20 degrees Celsius. I wake up to see the sun shinning outside, the blue skies greeting me and there are no clouds to be seen threw most of our winter days in OZ. But secretly I wish I could use my red coat again and walk on snow to hear my footsteps on the white silence and feel my red cheeks become numb from the cold wind blowing on my face on winter mornings.<br /><br /><br /></div><div align="justify">So here are some of the pictures of the little projects that I have finished. Hope you all like it.</div><br /><br /><embed height="267" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="400" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5360558800470902161%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US"></embed><br /><br /><embed height="267" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="400" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5360558518210302593%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US"></embed><br /><br /><embed height="267" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="400" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5360558293111321265%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US"></embed>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-78907747992360854452009-06-21T15:48:00.007+10:002009-06-21T16:49:18.113+10:00Grated Apple &Potato Crepe<div align="justify"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/Sj3XnYAiKvI/AAAAAAAAMgc/5AoxYgl601U/s1600-h/IMG_5538.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 184px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349669003845577458" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/Sj3XnYAiKvI/AAAAAAAAMgc/5AoxYgl601U/s200/IMG_5538.JPG" /></a> Now that Luke is having his afternoon nap I thought it would be a good time to update my blog. I just made these beautiful yummy apple and potato crepes that I thought I'd share the recipe with you. They are not something you can eat everyday because of the calories(610 kcal per 40 g) but they are a wonderful Sunday brunch treat. I love to have them with smoked Tasmanian salmon but my hubby doesn't eat fish so I buy a good quality smoked ham for him. Its a fairly easy recipe and the results are really impressive, light and with that wonderful sweet and sour hint. It is a great recipe to do when your apples are starting to have a sorry look, here at home we always have apples but they tend to linger too long sometimes. So here it goes:<br /><br /><strong>Ingredients:</strong> (this will make about 6 crepes)<br /><br />1 onion (medium size)<br /><br />2 potatoes (medium sized)<br /><br />3 granny smith apples (I think they are the best ones for this recipe but if you don't have them in the house, any apple will do)<br /><br />1 egg<br /><br />2tbsp plain flour<br /><br />Chives<br /><br />Horseradish cream<br /><br />Dill<br /><br />Sour Cream or Cream Fresh<br /><br />Salt<br /><br />Pepper<br /><br /><br /><strong>Preparation:</strong> (45 minutes)<br /><br /><strong>1.</strong> Peel 1 onion and grate on a hand-grater. Put it in a bowl. Peel and wash the two potatoes and grate them coarsely on the grater. Wash and peel the three granny smith apples(if you have large ones use only two apples). Grate them coarsely as far as the core and add to the bowl with the grated onion and potatoes.<br /><br /><strong>2.</strong> Stir one egg into the mixture and add salt (1tsp), pepper and the flour, mixing well. Add the chopped chives and mix again. The mixture should not be dry, if its too runny add a little more flour.<br /><br /><strong>3.</strong> Heat a good quality oil ( I use rice bran oil because of it's high heat point) in a non-stick frying pan and add a little butter if you like. With a spoon add the batter and press it a little till its flat. The best, so far for me is three crepes at a time, cooking them for about 4 to 5 minutes in each side. Set aside in plate with some paper towel to drain any oil.<br /><br /><strong>4.</strong> Put a generous amount of smoked ham (triple smoked is the one I usually use) on top of the crepe. Add 1tsp of sour cream to the top. Sprinkle some chives over the sour cream and serve. For the salmon crepe: Add a nice generous slice of smoked Tasmanian salmon on top of the crepe. Add 1 tsp of sour cream, 1/2 a tsp of horseradish cream on top of the sour cream and sprinkle with fresh Dill. Its ready to serve and devour!!!<br /><br /><embed height="267" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="400" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5349653502170183041%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US"></embed> </div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-79443927892357786232009-06-11T03:10:00.007+10:002009-06-21T13:57:44.086+10:00Hello hello from OZ... anyone out there!!!!<div align="justify"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/Si_25W5iNPI/AAAAAAAAMe8/bW-m-oqil4E/s1600-h/IMG_5527.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345762747971941618" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 112px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/Si_25W5iNPI/AAAAAAAAMe8/bW-m-oqil4E/s200/IMG_5527.JPG" border="0" /></a> Hello my fellow bloggers.....I have missed my little blog very much!!! Sorry again for the strong case of disappearance that has been keeping me away form my beloved little blog. Can't stress enough how being a mom has truly changed my life. Gone are the spare hours that I had to add nice pictures of holidays to the blog or great recipes that I tried one afternoon or even better yet, the little craft projects that I used to do. But don't worry I might be less frequent on my posts but they still will be added with great pleasure, just not as frequent!!! So much has happened, cant believe that it has only been 2 months since my last post (it feels like 6 months!!).<br /><br /><br /></div><div align="justify">OK... update on the baby front. Luke is growing so fast, he is not a newborn anymore, each day he discovers something new in this big wide world of ours. He is such a good baby, cant complain at all. He sleeps through the night and always wakes up with such a big beautiful smile in his little face. I wish I could wake up with such a smile in my face every morning, it truly makes you appreciate your life more, he is only 4 months old and already he is giving me life lessons. He is a very content little boy who always smiles and giggles, I'm in love...really! Motherhood has been one of the best decision of my life, really cant complain at all ....I am loving it! </div><br /><div align="justify">On the craft front... I have been busy making baby pants which I got a tutorial made by a great fellow blogger <strong>Jessica </strong>who created it just for me (isn't she awesome!!!). Here is the link to her tutorial (<a href="http://balancingeverything.com/2009/04/21/how-to-make-easy-baby-and-kid-pants/">http://balancingeverything.com/2009/04/21/how-to-make-easy-baby-and-kid-pants/</a>), check out her blog is just great! Will post pictures of the baby pants that I made for Luke and some for Kim's new baby boy that I made but it will have to be another time cause didn't have the time to take the pictures of it yet...sorry guys. Also I made a baby blanket/quilt for Kim's little baby boy which also I have no pictures....naughty Alex!!! </div><br /><div align="justify">A couple of weeks ago I took the day of from Luke, it was a Sunday and the Quilt show was in town here in Perth. So my mother in law and I spend the day with wonderful quilts and wonderful fabrics to buy. It was great but cant say I didn't miss my little guy...it was the first time we were apart and it was a little weired. I kept calling Rob to check if everything was under control. But apart from that, I just had a great time. All the beautiful quilts gave me so much inspiration to make new quilts and new little projects. Oh and I bought such fantastic Japanese fabrics, they are so cute but also have not had the chance to take some pictures of the fabrics so all of you could have a look. But I did already upload the pictures from the quilts in the show so I hope you all enjoy it. Really Australian quilters are so incredibly creative and artistic, I'm so lucky to be able to see there work.<br /></div><div align="justify">In another note my brother is getting married tomorrow but sadly we had to cancel our trip to go back to Holland because we could only get really crappy flights which would mean that we would have a 32 hour trip in total to get there and also a 32 hours trip on the way back and I just could not do such a long trip alone back with Luke. So sadly we wont be able to share on his happy day with Vivianne but we will be there in spirit! My father has come to us for 10 days and I can really say I was proud of him, he is 75 and managed a long trip to see his grandson. It was very nice to have him here with me. Now my mom has to come and visit also hopefully in September she will be able to come for a visit. We are also planning to go to Holland next year in Spring. </div><br /><div align="justify">Well that is all the news that I can think of at the moment so till the next post hopefully it wont be too long. Enjoy the slide show of Perth's Quilt Show. </div><br /><br /><br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5339757892346209937%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-17300203534464768782009-03-18T12:20:00.007+11:002009-09-22T21:52:13.877+10:00Luke Gabriel was born!!!<div align="justify"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/ScBUBgaWXFI/AAAAAAAAMMU/xFdJQd-445U/s1600-h/IMG_5187.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314339945154239570" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/ScBUBgaWXFI/AAAAAAAAMMU/xFdJQd-445U/s320/IMG_5187.JPG" border="0" /></a> I am so sorry for my very long silence but I have great news for those who don't already know. Luke Gabriel was born on the 3rd of February at 10:16 pm at the Birth Center. I had a natural labour and it was about 7 hours. For the most part of it I stayed at home and around 6:30 pm Rob took me to the Birthing Center, were I stayed in the hot tube till minutes before pushing my little angel to the world. I had only one shot of morphine for pain relief which was enough for me, I was very lucky; my labour was very fast and I could handle the pain well. Rob took two weeks off from work and they gave him one week paternal leave. It was great, cause I really needed the help in the first month. Now Luke and I are trying to get into a routine. He suffered from colic and also my milk supply is low so at the moment we are working to get my supply up. I never thought one would have this problem, I just thought milk would come poring out, like non-stop! For the rest we are all doing really well, the weather is starting to cool down which for me is a relief. Also I am already planning my holidays in Holland for June cause my brother is getting married. So very busy, as all of you can see, I hope I will be able to update the blog more frequently I will try my best to at least do one post a month. I have done a video of Luke Gabriel, I hope you all enjoy. It's a funny one, he is doing his business and he makes some funny faces, well enjoy. Hugs to all of you!</div><div align="justify"></div><br /><br /><object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/LiZScLOzWho&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/LiZScLOzWho&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-32872287847161715512009-01-09T18:42:00.010+11:002010-05-25T22:49:43.515+10:00Brazilian Pudding (Pudim de Leite Condesado)<div align="justify"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/SWc4O7KqxxI/AAAAAAAAMB4/OLfdiDVZn5w/s1600-h/IMG_4227.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289258116421699346" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/SWc4O7KqxxI/AAAAAAAAMB4/OLfdiDVZn5w/s200/IMG_4227.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a> <strong>I have noticed that this particular post is very popular, so welcome to my blog, please feel free to also see other posts and features in my blog. It would be great if you would come back now then and see whats new. Well enjoy!!! </strong>For all of you who want a very nice dessert with no fuss, you should try this classic Brazilian pudding. It has a lot of sugar so its not something you should make every week. This dessert can make any occasion special and it will hit all the right places. But please be warned that this dessert is addictive, once you start eating you cant stop! It needs to be cold so take that in consideration when making it. I usually make it on the end of the day and eat it the next day. Like any pudding there are a lot of variations to this traditional recipe out there, I have altered the recipe as well just because I like an extra hint of orange to my pudding but they are all basically the same. The big secret of this recipe is how to make the pudding have the little bubbles in it, don't worry this recipe guarantees the bubbles in your pudding. The method seems very difficult and complex but when you do start you cant believe how easy it is! I will write this recipe in English and Portuguese so bare with me OK. Lets start....<br /><br /><br /><strong>Ingredients</strong> (<span style="color: #006600;">Ingredientes</span>):<br /><br /><br />2 cans of condensed milk (<span style="color: #006600;">2 latas de leite condesado</span>)<br /><br /><br />2 cans of milk -use the same cans from the condensed milk for mesaurments. (<span style="color: #006600;">a mesma medida de leite comum</span>)<br /><br /><br />5 eggs (<span style="color: #006600;">5 ovos</span>)<br /><br /><br />1 orange zest (<span style="color: #006600;">1 raspa de laranja</span>)<br /><br /><br />Vanila extract (<span style="color: #006600;">estrato de baunilha</span>)<br /><br /><br /><strong>sauce</strong> (<span style="color: #006600;">calda</span>):<br /><br /><br />1 cup of castor sugar (<span style="color: #006600;">1 xicara de acucar</span>)<br /><br /><br />1/2 cup of water (<span style="color: #006600;">1/2 xicara de agua</span>)<br /><br /><br />*You will need a bunt baking pan<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glitterlife-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00091PMSU" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glitterlife-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00091PMSU" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />; the one that is round with the tube in the middle.<br /><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=glitterlife-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=bpl&amp;asins=B00091PMSU&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe><br /><br /><strong>Methode</strong> (<span style="color: #006600;">modo de fazer</span>):<br /><br /><br /></div><div align="justify">1. Start with the sauce. <span style="color: red;">Please be extra careful with this step specially if you have small childeren at home because the caramel can be very hot and make a lot of damage on little or adult fingers.</span> Bring the sugar and the water together in a small sauce pan. Let it boil in medium heat on the stove. You have to keep an eye on this all the time because it can burn and then your pudding will become bitter. When the sauce is becoming a lighter brown keep steering so it wont burn and turn the heat down a little. Let it get a little darker, you will know when its ready when it reaches a medium caramel color. In a bunt baking pan pore the caramel and make circular movements so the caramel covers the sides of the baking pan (be careful with this because the pan becomes hot so use cooking gloves). Set aside to cool completely (this is very important because if you don't let it cool completely it will make scramble eggs of you pudding). While its cooling get a deep backing pan in which the bunt baking pan will fit inside. Poor warm water in it and stick it in the oven and pre heat your oven 200 Celsius. This will insure that the water will be warm when you put the pudding in the water in the deep baking pan. This is the secret for the little bubbles in your pudding!<br /><br /><span style="color: #006600;">Misture o açúcar refinado com a água e leve no fogo sem mexer no comeco e depois quando comecar a escurecer mexa até ficar com cor de guaraná. Coloque em forma de buraco no meio e mexa a forma até caramelizá-la por igual. Espere a calda ficar em temperatura ambiente. Caso contrario a temperatura da calda poderá talhar o pudim. </span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="color: black;">2. When the caramel is cool you can start making the pudding. Put all the ingredients together the eggs, milk, condensed milk, orange zest and vanilla extract (its up to you how much you want from the vanilla) in a blender. Blend it on high for 5 minutes. Pore the liquid into the bunt baking pan. Put the bunt pan on the water in the deep baking pan, who is already hot in the oven. Let it bake uncovered for about ten minutes or till you see the top becoming a nice golden colour. When this happens just cover the pudding with aluminum foil and let it bake for 1 hour, keep an eye on the water and be sure to top it up, you need the water so it wont burn the pudding.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #006600;">Bata todos os ingredientes no liquidificador por cinco minutos. Despeje o pudim na forma já caramelizada. Para você conseguir um pudim com bastantes furinhos, leve ao forno em banho-maria com a água já quente. O forno deve estar pre-aquecido 200 graus. Deixe o pudim discoberto ate ele comecar a ter uma cor de caramelo ai voce pode ccobri-lo com papel aluminio. Deixe em fogo alto por uma hora. </span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><br /><span style="color: #006600;"><span style="color: black;">3. You should be able to see if the pudding is ready if it has risen like a souffle and if you prick the middle with a tooth pick and no liquid comes out than you can take it out of the oven. Let it cool completely before bringing it to the fridge; please leave the aluminum foil on or your pudding will take the flavour of your fridge and that is yuck.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #006600;"><span style="color: #006600;">Voce vai poder saber se o pudim esta pronto quando ele crescer como um souffle. Ele quase dobra de tamanho. So pra ter certeza faca o teste do palitinho. Retire do forno e deixe esfriar completamente antes de coloca-lo na geladeira.</span></span></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="color: #006600;"><span style="color: black;">4. The next day you can take it out of the fridge and in the same deep baking pan add hot water and let the pudding sit on it for a while, this insures that the caramel will melt and make it easier for you to turn the pudding on a plate. I leave it in the water till the water cools down. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #006600;"><span style="color: #006600;">No dia seguinte ou depois que o puddim esteja bem gelado coloque em banho maria novamente so para a calda degrudar da forma. Voce nao presica colocar ele no forno!!!! Deixe ele de banho maria ate a agua esfriar.</span></span></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><span style="color: #006600;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #006600;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #006600;"><span style="color: black;">5. Now this is the moment of truth!! With a knife cut the pudding from the side of the baking pan. Put a nice big plate on top of the bunt backing pan and turn it upside-down and leave it for a while. Don't mess with it, just let the pudding slowly on its own fall down to the plate. If you mess with it it will brake and you will have an ugly pudding. It will fall, trust me and then there it is you beautiful delicious traditional Brazilian pudding. Very very yummy....specially very cold!</span></span><br /></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #006600;">Agora e o momento da verdade. Com um faca descole as laterais da panela. Num prato grande coloque-o em cima da panela do pudim e vir-o de cabeca para baixo para desformar. Deixe ele cair sozinho, nao bata na panela pois vc pode quebraro pudim e ai vc tem uma meleca de caramelo. Deixe o pudim cair sozinho. E quando ele cair vc tera um lindo pudim com furrinhos que e uma delicia!</span></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><embed flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5289133589769511697%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" height="267" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"></embed> </div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910967346863755132.post-41667541535255064692009-01-01T13:56:00.002+11:002009-01-01T14:28:54.608+11:00Happy New Year!!!!<div align="justify"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/SVw4SMyyk0I/AAAAAAAALzw/zsDsd66rFDU/s1600-h/IMG_5029.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286161947949175618" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N8Lmem60GXk/SVw4SMyyk0I/AAAAAAAALzw/zsDsd66rFDU/s200/IMG_5029.JPG" border="0" /></a> We had such a great time last night at Paul's house. It was strange but wonderful to have the passage of the New Year outside having a barbecue in a warm summer night. The memories of when we had our New Year parties in Brazil was present throughout the evening for me. I had very nice fish with some very yummy salad and lots and lots of water and soda. The picture posted on the blog is just for fun....Rob and Paul were smoking cigars and we thought it would be fun to take picture with me with the cigar and beer ... so for all of you out there I did not smoke a cigar or drank beer this New Year!!! It was great to be among friends and family and everyone really had a wonderful time. Alice was really enjoying the warm weather and the great food. It really was a perfect evening for all of us! I wish all of you a great 2009 and that this year will bring peace, joy and happiness for all of you who read my blog. Enjoy the slide show...<br /><br /><embed pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;captions=1&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fglitterlife.nl%2Falbumid%2F5286153427089127857%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss"></embed><br /></div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04983060725228328421noreply@blogger.com0